Games That Weren't^®

Imperium was a game by Jörg Schließer which was mean’t to be published by the Tronic Verlag, and like Captain Stark has not been seen anywhere. This game was told to be a SF-RPG, described as unique on the German … Continue reading →

“Starting life as a humble molecule in the Pre-Cambrian age, you progress through this exciting ten-level game to the Dawn of Early Man – if you are clever enough! Create the ideal fish, play a new kind of ‘Snap’, judge … Continue reading →

Yet another Firebird title to go into the GTW archives, this time a title by Cory Kin. Indeflatable was written for Firebird Software back in 1988 – a few years before their other unreleased title Gem Quest. The idea behind … Continue reading →

Another puzzle game, but a rather intriguing one… “Infection” was a game to be released by Virgin Mastertronic back in 1989, but the game never got a release although it was completed on Amiga, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, PC, C64 and … Continue reading →

A small play area, some nice graphics, some fair playability and some great music… This is what this preview consists of. You control a smartly animated bird which flys around and collects objects, while avoiding other flying creatures. Its not … Continue reading →

A limited Uridium clone which eventually made it onto the Amstrad platform, along with the Atari ST and Amiga versions. This game was brought to my attention by Martin Holland, who worked on the Amstrad, ST and Amiga versions, but … Continue reading →

Jam It! is a neat little music game by Gregg Kustudic, who produced the Space Ace preview also in GTW. This was sent in along with Space Ace, and may predate other games of its type where you have to … Continue reading →

This is a multi-directional platformer in the style of Sonic and James Pond 2. Its very fast, and the action is quick. The released previews featured some lovely graphics and animations, but on a very small screen area. The majority … Continue reading →

This is an entry for a long lost Atarisoft conversion of Joust for the Commodore 64, due for release back in 1984. The game had made it across to a variety of platforms, but the C64 game was thought to … Continue reading →

Another Hungarian title which has been found by Csaba Virag, and which is a very simple game where you have to try and land on the boat. It’s quite glitchy and almost unplayable, but another curiosity saved for posterity. We … Continue reading →

A very short entry for now, for a simple text adventure game that has been recovered by GTW64 regular Csaba Virag and which doesn’t seem to be in Gamebase or elsewhere just yet. It is a German language text adventure, … Continue reading →

Another combined entry for a series of titles from K-TEK Software, which may or may not have been released. At present the following titles are missing: Stomp Ground – FOUND thanks to Allan Pinkerton, see downloads! Sky Diving – FOUND … Continue reading →

Case opened, and then closed! Completely missed that this game was fully complete and released last year. See Hedning’s comment below. https://csdb.dk/release/?id=187002 Apologies about that, but great news that this game is in fact complete and ready to play! Case … Continue reading →

One of the best blasters ever and it’s not too hard to see where the inspiration for Katakis came from. This is a blatant R-Type clone, featuring almost identical backdrops and power-ups, right down to the bolt-on/send-ahead drone that does … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that did eventually see release, but was actually intended to be a game with a completely different name. Dynamix was a new puzzle game from Ash and Dave, published by Virgin Mastertronic back in … Continue reading →

Yet another SEUCK title which has come from the Zzap article which was ran back in 1992 time to search for good Megatape games. James Sweeny’s Klaboom effort was seen as being too simplistic, and one which didn’t offer too … Continue reading →